Cape Cliff Mountain is oblique and does not belong to China from now on. —— Qian Qianyi, "The Thirteenth of Later Autumn Xing"
In the history of our country, there was a very influential war, that is, the Battle of Yashan and Hai during the Southern Song Dynasty.
This was the final game between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Mongols, but it ended in a fiasco.
After the Battle of Yashan, the Southern Song Dynasty regime was completely overthrown, and the civilization that had been passed down for thousands of years fell into the hands of the Mongols, so there was this lament: "The cape cliff mountain is oblique, and it is not Chinese from now on."
However, this poem, which was originally used to lament the collapse of the country, was used by the Japanese and eventually transformed into a completely distorted sentence: "There is no China after the cliff mountain, and there is no China after the Ming Dynasty."
If we talk about the reasons for the Japanese's transformation in this way, we must start from the distant Battle of Yashan Sea...
1. The Battle of Yashan
At the end of the Song Dynasty, the decline was out of control, and the Mongols just happened to rise, bringing great threats to the Southern Song Dynasty regime.
After the iron horses of Temujin's army flattened a number of ethnic minority regimes, they finally pointed their blades at the power center of the Southern Song Dynasty, which is now Hangzhou.
It is also ridiculous to say that a great dynasty did not even have the strength to fight with one, and the concubine of Song Duzong fled with his young son, who was only seven years old, and even pushed this child to the emperor's position halfway.
Unfortunately, the new emperor Song Ruizong did not carry the burden as they wished, but unfortunately died due to a typhoon on the bumpy road.
With the idea that "the country cannot be without a monarch for a day", the ministers urgently established Song Ruizong's brother as emperor, but where the emperor is, the target of the Yuan army is where the target is.
When the ministers fled to Yashan with the little emperor, they finally avoided it and launched a fierce war with the Yuan army.
Originally, the Southern Song Dynasty gathered 200,000 soldiers and civilians with its foundation, which accounted for a great advantage in number compared with the Yuan army.
However, they had long been afraid of this group of brave and good warriors, so they had to think about it every step, and they missed the best opportunity to attack, so that the Yuan army waited for the arrival of the large troops.
The strength of the Yuan army, which joined the main force, increased greatly and launched a fierce attack on the Song Dynasty, and the then minister Lu Xiufu and the military talent Zhang Shijie exhausted their methods and pulled with the Yuan army for several days, and finally on February 6, they were attacked by the Yuan army on both sides.
The general trend of the Southern Song Dynasty has gone, and the subjugation of the country has become inevitable.
The chancellor did not want the last emperor to fall into the hands of the enemy and be humiliated, so he simply jumped into the sea with the little emperor.
After the emperor was buried in the sea, the soldiers and civilians who were still resisting suddenly lost their fighting spirit and followed the emperor one after another.
The originally calm sea surface floated with the corpses of tens of thousands of Southern Song people, and the generals of the Yuan Dynasty carved a mark next to the mountain stone that "the Song dynasty is here".
Although the sun still rose as usual, and the mountains and seas after the end of the war returned to their former calm, people at that time knew that the sky had changed.
The rule of the Han Chinese was brought to an end, and the Chinese culture that had been passed down for thousands of years was also broken, and the Japanese were eager to move and try to classify han culture as their own.
Second, undisguised covetousness
The Japanese coveted Han culture as early as the Han and Tang dynasties.
At that time, the cultural exchanges between China and Japan were quite close, and Japan sent emissaries to China many times to learn the excellent Han culture and apply what they learned to the construction of their own country.
Over time, many things in Japan have been tainted with the shadow of Han culture, but after doing the shadow for a long time, you will have the illusion that you are the original.
The ambitions of the Japanese breed that they believe that what they have mastered is the authentic Han culture.
They thought that the Mongols would inevitably decline without the support of Han culture, so during the Yuan Dynasty and even the later Ming Dynasty, Japan repeatedly provoked China and launched wars in the border areas.
Unfortunately, what Japan did not know was that in the eyes of the Yuan Dynasty, they were always just a beam-jumping clown, and they did not pose any substantial threat to China.
However, due to its geographical advantages, the Yuan Dynasty twice sent troops to fight against Japan, but ultimately failed.
This invisibly increased the ambitions of the Japanese, making them even more unscrupulous during the Ming Dynasty, not only demanding to sit on an equal footing with the Ming Dynasty, but also provoking naval battles after being rejected, sending out Wokou, and doing everything in their power to do evil on the land of China.
Such attempts came to an abrupt end after the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, as Japan discovered that the mighty Ming Dynasty had been replaced by the Qing Dynasty.
From the bottom of their hearts, they look down on this regime, believing that Han culture has been replaced by barbarians, and that they are orthodox, and what they have to do is to "correct the chaos."
Japan allowed this idea to flourish, and after completing the Meiji Restoration at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it began a large-scale invasion of China.
After the Sino-Japanese War, Japan published an article that read: "A barbarian tribe outside the Yuansai of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, who is neither a virtue of being ordained nor a contributor to China, taking advantage of Zhu Ming's decline and fortune, violent robbery, pretending to be a moment, changing the opportunity to change, and skillfully manipulating the world."
It turned out that in the eyes of the Japanese, they were not making enemies of China, but of the Qing government, and their actions were not to invade China, but only to represent Chinese orthodoxy and eliminate the Manchu Qing.
Third, there is an ulterior motive
The Japanese thought and practiced in this way, so that they said things like "there is no China after the cliff mountain, and there is no China after the Ming Dynasty."
But they forget that neither China nor China has anything to do with them, and they are not qualified to dictate to what has happened in China.
Of course, in the later stages of the war of aggression against China, the Japanese had long been devoured by aggression and had long forgotten their original set of arguments, and the so-called "Chinese orthodoxy" that had been hidden since the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty had been torn apart, revealing the greedy face inside.
From coveting Chinese culture to coveting everything in China, Japan can be said to have exhausted all means to try to attribute these to themselves, so they have ulterior motives to write "there is no China after the cliffs and mountains, and there is no China after the Ming Dynasty", trying to confuse the public and shake the hearts of Chinese.
However, they overlooked the point that there was no fault in Han culture or not.
No matter how many regime changes have been experienced in the history of our country, the cultural origins are still rooted in every inch of the Chinese land, and no matter how many winds and moons are blown, they will not be broken.
Therefore, the Japanese invasion is doomed to failure, their conspiracy is destined to be discovered by China, and the Han culture that makes them want to take it for themselves will always belong to and only belong to the Chinese nation.